2 Kings 7:3-4
Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”
There is a time in life when we have to throw caution to the wind, and take steps of faith to change our situation/condition.
The four lepers were in a dire situation. They were faced with hunger and stared death in the face. Have you ever felt you are locked up in an inevitable bad situation, with enormous barriers erected against your deliverance?
These lepers were somewhat banished from entering the city because of their condition. They were expected to not mingle with other men, hence the reason why they stayed at the gates. Sometimes, the laws of men confine us to places where we would rather not be, and we feel obliged to stay there to avoid the grave consequences of breaching these laws.
Sometimes, in order to be free, we have to take a risk, as well as part with human conventions. This is not a call to lawlessness, but a challenge to take the sort of action that can liberate you from any sort of limitation , and set you to soar up high where God wants you to.
To always want to please man, can place you where you displease God. When the lepers took a risk, they broke human laws that had put them in bondage. For us to step out in faith, we would have to take risks. This is because acts of faith usually contravene human reasoning. We cannot make exploits for God if we always choose our comfort and safe zone. We need to step out, and dare to do something we have never done before.
Life is too short to play safe! Step out in faith.
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